excited to participate in the anti-criterion challenge this year!
progress: 52/52 ✅ COMPLETED 🥳
here are the rules: this challenge features 52 categories, which you can watch in any order you want and at whatever speed best suits your viewing habits. (so long as you watch all 52 movies in 2023!) the only rule is that you have to watch movies that are NOT in the criterion collection. the intention is to make these all first-time watches (with a pseudo-exception listed below) but that’s up to your discretion.
challenge created by T.H. Ponders
Categories:
1. 100 Years of Greats! Use a random number generator to pick a year between 1923 and 2023, sort by most popular, and pick a film…
excited to participate in the anti-criterion challenge this year!
progress: 52/52 ✅ COMPLETED 🥳
here are the rules: this challenge features 52 categories, which you can watch in any order you want and at whatever speed best suits your viewing habits. (so long as you watch all 52 movies in 2023!) the only rule is that you have to watch movies that are NOT in the criterion collection. the intention is to make these all first-time watches (with a pseudo-exception listed below) but that’s up to your discretion.
challenge created by T.H. Ponders
Categories:
1. 100 Years of Greats! Use a random number generator to pick a year between 1923 and 2023, sort by most popular, and pick a film from the top 10. (You can expand to Top 20 if you’ve seen them all, or roll for a different year!) - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) dir. Steven Spielberg✅
2. 1920s - The Patsy (1928) dir. King Vidor✅
3. 1930s - Wise Girl (1937) dir. Leigh Jason✅
4. 1940s - Never Say Goodbye (1946) dir. James V. Kern✅
5. 1950s - Athena (1954) dir. Richard Thorpe✅
6. 1960s - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) dir. George Pal and Henry Levin✅
7. 1970s - Between the Lines (1977) dir. Joan Micklin Silver✅
8. 1980s - Yentl (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand✅
9. 1990s - S.F.W. (1994) dir. Jefery Levy✅
10. 2000s - Aquamarine (2006) dir. Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum✅
11. 2010s - Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) dir. Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone✅
12. 2020s - Cocaine Bear (2023) dir. Elizabeth Banks✅
13. Creature Feature or Creature Documentary - Grizzly Man (2005) dir. Werner Herzog✅
14. Period Horror or Period Horror - Mark of the Vampire (1935) dir. Tod Browning✅
15. Water Sports. Just Water Sports. - Blue Crush (2002) dir. John Stockwell✅
16. Directed by Hong Sang-Soo - In Another Country (2012) dir. Hong Sang-Soo✅
17. Directed by Raj Kapoor - Bobby (1973) dir. Raj Kapoor✅
18. Directed by Ida Lupino - The Trouble with Angels (1966) dir. Ida Lupino✅
19. Directed by an Indigenous director whose work you haven’t seen before - Beans (2020) dir. Tracey Deer✅
20. A documentary parodied on Documentary Now! - Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) dir. David Gelb✅
21. Dark Feminist’s Dark Feminism - Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki✅
22. ningsterrr’s 🏳️🌈 Love is an act of defiance. - The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye✅
23. Nicole’s Deafness and Sign Language in Film - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) dir. Robert Ellis Miller✅
24. michelle grondine’s dear diary, my teen angst bs now has a body count - William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann✅
25. Katie Mitchell’s The 50 Greatest Films EVER MADE! - The Muppet Movie (1979) dir. James Frawley✅
26. Frank Ocean’s 100 Favorite Films (List compiled by Jonathan Poritsky) - Fargo (1996) dir. Joel Coen✅
27. Made in Colombia by a Colombian director - The Wind Journeys (2009) dir. Ciro Guerra✅
28. Made in Pakistan by a Pakistani director - Janaan (2016) dir. Azfar Jafri ✅
29. Made in an island nation by a director from that country - The Breaker Upperers (2018) dir. Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek✅
30. Adapted from a toy or board game - Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig✅
31. Revisit your childhood- A film that you remember having watched as a child, but haven’t seen since and haven’t logged - Rugrats Go Wild (2003) dir. Norton Virgien and John Eng✅
32. Directed by a Trans, Nonbinary, or GNC director whose work you haven’t seen before - Darby and the Dead (2022) dir. Silas Howard✅
33. Feature film originally released on YouTube (either in parts or as a whole) - Live from the Space Stage: A HALYX Story (2020) dir. Matthew Serrano✅
34. TV Show Feature or Special (within the show canon -- no re-casted sequels or reboots) - Tangled: Before Ever After (2017) dir. Stephen Sandoval and Tom Caulfield✅
35. Cinematography by Yu Lik-wai - Unknown Pleasures (2002) dir. Jia Zhangke✅
36. Edited by Gloria Schoemann - Enamorada (1946) dir. Emilio Fernández ✅
37. Costumes designed by Ruth E. Carter - How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) dir. Kevin Rodney Sullivan✅
38. Production design by Jeannine Oppewall - The Face of Love (2013) dir. Arie Posin✅
39. Adapted from the writing of Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (2010) dir. Tran Anh Hung✅
40. The protagonist is a talking animal - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) dir. Joel Crawford✅
41. The antagonist is a place, thing, or idea (i.e. NOT a person) - The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) dir. H.C. Potter✅
42. Pre-Code romantic comedy - Bed of Roses (1933) dir. Gregory La Cava✅
43. Mexican Luchador film - Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolf Man (1973) dir. Miguel M. Delgado✅
44. Marāṭhī as the primary language - Court (2014) dir. Chaitanya Tamhane✅
45. Latin listed as a spoken language - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones ✅
46. How low can you go? (Rated lower than a 2.5) - Persuasion (2022) dir. Carrie Cracknell✅
47. Can you go down low? (Rated lower than a 2) - Mac and Me (1988) dir. Stewart Raffill✅
48. All the way to the floor? (Rated lower than a 1.5) - After We Fell (2021) dir. Castille Landon✅
49. Cha Cha Real Smooth (A film with a style of dance in the title.) - Take This Waltz (2011) dir. Sarah Polley✅
50. A film that inspired Goncharov (1973) - The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) dir. Michael Curtiz and William Keighley✅
51. A film inspired by Goncharov (1973) - American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron✅
52. Any film from your watchlist! - Fire of Love (2022) dir. Sara Dosa✅
